Observations of a baby star may show the earliest stages of planet formation that astronomers have ever seen.
Using combined observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, an international research team has glimpsed the earliest moments of planetary creation around the protostar HOPS-315, which lies in a giant star-forming region that is located about 1,400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion. Their findings appear in a study published on Wednesday in Nature.
Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For now, however, it’s shrouded by a vast and obscuring envelope of inflowing material—baby food for a hungry stellar newborn.
But JWST’s infrared and ALMA’s radio observations have pierced this veil, peering through a gap in the envelope to probe other structures around HOPS-315 in unprecedented detail—most notably a whirling halo of hot gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk. Such disks are wombs for embryonic worlds; in them, clumps of rock called planetesimals coalesce and eventually build up into full-fledged planets.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-see-planet-formation-time-zero-in-an-alien-solar-system/
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